Bukovsky to Make Film on Holodomor

June 16, 2008

Director Serhiy Bukovsky (right) describing the film project to Yuri Shevchuk during a meeting in Kyiv on May 13, 2008.

The leading Ukrainian documentary film maker Serhiy Bukovsky is currently working on the film about the Great Famine (Holodomor) of 1932-33. The film, tentatively entitled the "Living" (Zhyvi), is to mark the 75th anniversary of the tragedy that by various accounts killed from three to seven million Ukrainians. This genocide of the Ukrainian people, perpetrated by the Communist regime, remains virtually unknown in the world.  The film based on existing and new eye-witness accounts of the events, as well as recently found documents seeks to raise awareness of the Holodomor both in Ukraine and around the world. Its premier will take place in Kyiv on November 22, 2008. There are plans to screen the "Living" at Columbia University with the director of the film in attendance.